Official Google Buzz Firehose Added to Gnip’s Social Media API

Today we’re excited to announce the integration of the Google Buzz firehose into Gnip’s social media data offering. Google Buzz data has been available via Gnip for some time, but today Gnip became one of the first official providers of the Google Buzz firehose.

The Google Buzz firehose is a stream of all public Buzz posts (excluding Twitter tweets) from all Google Buzz users. If you’re interested in the Google Buzz firehose, here are some things to know:

• Google delivers it via Pubsubhubbub. If you don’t want to consume it via Pubsubhubbub, Gnip makes it available in any of our supported delivery methods: Polling (HTTP GET), Streaming HTTP (Comet), or Outbound HTTP Post (Webhooks).
• The format of the Firehose is XML Activity Streams. Gnip loves Activity Streams and we’re excited to see Google continue to push this standard forward.
• Google Buzz activities are Geo-enabled. If the end user attaches a geolocation on a Buzz post (either from a mobile Google Buzz client or through an import from another geo-enabled service), that location will be included in the Buzz activity.

We’re excited to bring the Google Buzz firehose to the Social Media Monitoring and Business Intelligence community through the power of the Gnip platform.

Here’s how to access the Google Buzz firehose. If you’re already a Gnip customer, just log in to your Gnip account and with 3 clicks you can have the Buzz firehose flowing into your system. If you’re not yet using Gnip and you’d like to try out the Buzz firehose to get a sense of volume, latency, and other key metrics, grab a free 3 day trial at http://try.gnip.com and check it out along with the 100 or so other feeds available through Gnip’s social media API.